Be a rock star at StaRGazing 2025!  Christina Watkins will spin your favorite hits to perform, croon or belt out!  Browse through the large selection at www.karafun.com or show us the karaoke version of your song online.

Lizzy Cooperman (Lights Out with David Spade, The Deadliest Chef, Lizzy Cooperman’s In Your Hands) was named one of TimeOut LA’s Comedians to Watch in 2018. She’s appeared on Lights Out with David Spade, Comedy Central’s Corporate, The Deadliest Chef, HBO’s Crashing, Kirby Jenner on Quibi, and AllBlk’s Send Help.  She hosts the podcast Lizzy Cooperman’s In Your Hands.

Lizzy’s headlined at The New York Comedy Festival and Portland’s HahaHarvest Fest, and has been featured at Bentzen Ball, Politicon, Red Clay Comedy Festival, RIOT LA, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and New Faces at JFL.  Her debut album, Organism, is regularly featured on SiriusXM and is available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and, lest we forget, Google Play.

Kelly Spillman’s solo show, “I Blame Florida,” explores the profound challenges of dealing with a cancer diagnosis and what it means to confront a so-called “death sentence.”  Kelly’s narrative is laced with humor, but it’s the underlying message of hope and resilience that truly resonates with audiences. However, for those who appreciate a candid look at a cancer journey through the lens of humor, Kelly’s story will offer both inspiration and a fresh perspective on resilience and the human spirit.

Kelly is a Psychology professor, story-telling and stand-up comedian. She was the Program Director for Psychology at Gwinnett Technical College before moving to Los Angeles. She continues to teach Psychology at Gwinnett Technical College online and at College of the Canyons in Los Angeles. Kelly has performed on NPR, The Moth, The Improv, and The Comedy Store. She is currently performing her one-woman show I Blame Florida all over the country

Brian McLaughlin has performed stand-up for over 20 years all around the US and in global locales as exotic as Kabul. He’s performed at The Comedy Store, The Ice House, and Flappers and was a judge and instructor at the Burbank Comedy Festival for six years, until they cut off his bar tab. He’s also done corporate, college, and conference shows, mostly for the alliteration.

Chris Korbel – Writer, Storyteller, 1/2 of the podcast “Arts & Entertainment with Chris & Randall” available everywhere.  A dude living on earth, in need of haircut & cake. Inspired to create ethereal works of beauty that are born of a mélange of procrastination, cynicism and vanity.  Chris will be the Master of Ceremonies for the Stand-Up Comedy Spectacular.

Singer-songwriter David Serby, a linchpin of Los Angeles’ alternative country scene, returns on May 11 with his sixth album Low Hanging Stars, his first collection of new music in a decade and his debut release on the L.A.-based Blackbird Record Label. Serby, a North Hollywood native, established himself as one of the L.A. scene’s most talented performers with a trio of neo-hardcore honky tonk albums, I Just Don’t Go Home (2006), Another Sleepless Night (2007), and Honkytonk and Vine (2009). He followed up those releases with a pair of stylistic departures: the folk-based Poor Man’s Poem (2011) and the double-barreled rockin’ pop collection David Serby and the Latest Scam (2003). Low Hanging Stars circles back to the style, sound, and subject matter of the records that made Serby’s reputation, with economical, keenly observed songs about people living on the margins. The no-punches-pulled writing reflects the influence of L.A.’s laureate of the lost, novelist-poet Charles Bukowski, whom Serby calls “just about my favorite writer.”

Personal undercurrents are heard in the songs “Why Leave Los Angeles” and “Low Hanging Stars,” about musicians attempting to claw out a living after leaving the City of Angels. Serby notes that these tunes were inspired in part by the departures of some of his popular contemporaries on the fertile scene that developed at West Los Angeles’ Cinema Bar in the early ‘00s: “When people like Mike Stinson and Randy Weeks left, I thought, ‘Wow,’” he says. “Periodically someone would say, ‘Oh, you’re still here? I thought you moved to Nashville.’ No, I’m still here.”